Naked is a show that comes to you when you are ready for it. It is not something you can wake up one morning and decide to create. I could not have performed this show five years ago because I doubt I would have had the skills or emotional ability to do justice to a show like Naked five years ago.

It is a show that at times involves talking about deeply intense and personal topics and yet as a performer requires you to be entertaining, interesting and funny without trivializing the issues or misrepresenting the depth of emotions - that is a very, very fine line.

The boundary that we comedians are slow to cross are the boundaries that exist within our own minds i.e. talking about things that make us uncomfortable. That is what I'm enjoying doing with Naked.Looking inwards and delving deep into chapters of my own life has allowed me to create a show that makes my audience emotionally connect with me in a way that I've never witnessed before. I'm really enjoying that connection. Audiences personally identify with the narrative of Naked and while all of them laugh, some of them cry and a few even walk out looking at their own lives with fresh eyes.Naked is very different to anything I have done before. While comedy forms the bulk of the show, I prefer to call it a multi-genre theatrical production. Unlike the stand-up I've done in the past, Naked has a narrative. Drama, poetry, storytelling, music, dancing, comedy, tragedy and hope are some of the elements that comprise this show.Unlike my usual stand-up where I am susceptible to getting carried away with audience interaction for ages, in Naked I have to curb that natural instinct a little because I have a story that I'm there to tell. I still chat with the audience of course, but not with reckless abandon!

Papa CJ has performed over 2,000 shows in 19 countries. He was the winner of both Asia's Best Stand-up Comedian Award and India's Best Comedian Award, as well as a finalist on America's Last Comic Standing. Forbes has called him "the global face of Indian stand-up," and Toastmaster International dubbed him "one of the most influential comedians around the world." CJ is big with corporate clients as well. He has performed for the likes of Audi, Adidas, Citibank, CISCO, Coca-Cola, Google, Lufthansa, Nokia, Oracle, Unilever, Vespa and Volkswagen.